Suggestion for those who want a gaming build roughly like this and around the same price, get a 250-500GB SSD and a 1-2TB Hard Drive, get 16GB of RAM instead, and use the savings to buy a 1080 or 1080Ti instead, not sayimg that this build is bad, but it is a content creation PC, not gaming. Also, get a full sized ATX board, you get more expandability for the future.

True but you get so much more for the price. The cheapest R5 has double the threads of the i5s. As well as having a lower TDP and a decent stock cooler. $30 saved right there w/o the lower price of the R5 factored in. Intel is the losing team right now bro, AMD is coming back hard.

In the PSU box the wires will be there. Use CPU labeled cables for the CPU port, and use VGA cables for the ports on the GPU. The rest is rather self explanatory. If you need more help look up a building tutorial on youtube. Also for future reference ask on the forums.

Suggestion, use the Enthusiast gaming build guide instead of this one, it is the same price and has a 1080 instead of a 1070, and while it doesn't have as much storage, you can always get a cheap 2 TB HDD. The motherboard on the other guide is better looking and allows SLI for the future if you're thinking about that.

I like the look of red PCs, they look aggressive and clean. Besides I finished it before Ryzen came out and I just put it up. Plus AMD's GPUs are more for the builder with a budget and they don't have the performance of a 1070.

No. If you have a choice to invest in some hardware that is a similar price with more cores and threads that will be better optimized in the future for only a 10 FPS loss now, you should get it. If you decide to get an i7 7700 now you're just being stupid when the R7 1700 is better for around the same price. While it doesn't have the performance now, it's soon going to rival/beat the i7 7700 in streaming and gaming and it will DESTROY the i7 7700 in video editing. If you buy the i7 7700 now, you are investing in the past, if you buy the R7 1700 you are investing in the future.

Pretty good, 60 fps+ settings cranked on most games I play. GTA V and Fallout 4 will get less than 60 but I have every, and I mean every setting cranked to the max. In nature sections of GTA V I'll get less than 60, but keep in mind GTA V says that I'm using 5+ GB of VRAM which your card right now doesn't even have. Fallout is just badly optimized so even a 1080 is going to struggle to get more than 60 fps on demanding areas with the settings cranked, but I love the 1070, it's a great card. Sorry for the wall of text.

Yeah, but me I'd just sell the parts individually. You could probably sell the i7 for $150+ or with the mobo for like $220. You could also sell the 650 ti for about $30-$50. The rest, other than the Drives and RAM, is worthless